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After completion of the experiments, all bats were released at the site of capture. We recorded echolocation calls of 33 individuals from the following eight species: Kerivoula intermedia (one female, five males), K.?krauensis (one male), K.?papillosa (4, 3), K.?pellucida (1, 2), Phoniscus atrox (six males), P.?jagorii (one male), Murina cyclotis (four males) and M.?suilla (1, 4). For the tests of prey detection performance, only those individuals that readily captured mealworms from strings during pre-tests were used: Kerivoula intermedia (one male), K.?papillosa (four http://www.selleckchem.com/products/sch772984.html females, two males), Phoniscus atrox (one male), Murina cyclotis (two males) and M.?suilla (one male). Bats were flown singly in a large screen tent (Eureka, Breezeway; ground area 3��5?��?3��5?m, 2��5?m central height) during their natural activity period. Recordings were made when the bat passed close ( http://www.selleck.cn/products/gdc-0068.html Germany) and stored on a laptop computer. Because of technical problems, we used a different digital ultrasound recording system for one-and-half weeks (D1000X Detector, Pettersson http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Bortezomib.html Elektronic AB, Uppsala, Sweden; sampling rate 500?kHz, 16-bit depth, ��5?dB between 30 and 120?kHz). Both systems had a similar frequency response and were operational up to 240?kHz, thus the recordings were pooled. For sound analysis, we used the program Selena (custom-made, digital signal analysis software, developed at the Department of Animal Physiology, University of T��bingen; version May 2008). In this program, calls were displayed as spectrograms (frequency versus time versus intensity plots, Fig.?1), for the frequency range from 0 to 240?kHz (using a fast Fourier transform (FFT) with Hann window and 256 sample points). The spectrograms had a frequency resolution of 1��88?kHz and a time resolution of 0��5?ms. Each FFT window was enlarged to 1024 points by zero padding to improve reading accuracy to 0��47?kHz in the frequency domain. Reading accuracy in the time domain was improved by FFT overlap (96%) to 0��002?ms. Occasionally, calls showed initial upward modulated elements, which were not included in quantitative call measurements.
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